Chapter Summaries

Sequence 009 spared Jena’s companions so he could use them to control her. After Zane drank a potion to heal his severed arm, he and Rat resolved to save Jena by any means and Rat offered to show Zane something the church had once forbidden.

• Sequence 009 stopped Arthur from killing Zane and Rat, intending to use their lives as leverage over Jena.
• After Sequence 009 and Arthur left with Jena, Zane drank the Brother's Wound potion, which healed his arm but prevented him from ever receiving treatment for future injuries.
• Zane insisted that he would save Jena because she was his companion, and Rat recognized him as a true Holy Warrior.
• Zane rejected justice and his old identity as a Holy Warrior, declaring that he would use any means necessary to rescue Jena.
• Rat said he had an idea and warned Zane that it involved something the church had fiercely opposed.

Ratt revealed that his arm contained part of Hidden King's remains and planned to use it to enter the Atula Treasury at Pilgrimage Snow Mountain. Meanwhile, Angel Mo learned the treasury’s location, and the True Ancestor planned to target the master of the Magic Tower.

• Ratt showed Zane Hidden King's rotting hand and explained the history of Hidden King and the legend that collecting his remains could make someone king of the Moors.
• Ratt told Zane that his family had been killed over the hand and said he wanted to use Hidden King's remains to save Jena.
• Ratt said the Atula Treasury held more of Hidden King's flesh and the Heaven-Reversing Sword, and explained that the living treasury door could open with the remains; he and Zane set out for Pilgrimage Snow Mountain.
• Angel Mo questioned the True Ancestor about the key and ring, learned that they opened the Sanctuary and a treasury at Pilgrimage Snow Mountain, and took both items.
• After Angel Mo left, the True Ancestor decided to pursue the master of the Magic Tower as his next target.

Sequence 009 and Arthur tested how their Absolute Indestructibility and Absolute Sever would interact, but the world prevented them from making contact. Meanwhile, Chen Ye brought the giant octopus to an enormous being somewhere in the Solar System.

• Sequence 009 explained his theory that Absolute Traits might have priorities and asked Arthur to cut him.
• Arthur and Sequence 009 tried more than forty times to make their abilities collide, but each attempt was mysteriously disrupted.
• Sequence 009 concluded that the world was preventing the two absolute powers from meeting, leaving their conflict without an observable outcome.
• Chen Ye brought the giant octopus from Vespa's stomach to a vast, barren land somewhere in the Solar System.
• The giant octopus realized it was lying in the palm of a colossal being whose eyes looked like two suns.

Li Yuan and Hydra received Chen Ye’s order to conquer another world plane, where they expected to face fifth-tier enemies. In the Endless Wasteland, the Frost King prepared to investigate a strange place despite the threat posed by a powerful creature beneath it.

• A giant octopus was crushed and divided, and Chen Ye sent Li Yuan a potion for evolution.
• Chen Ye ordered Hydra to assist Li Yuan, while Hydra accused him of being Li Yuan and a message in the sky told him to stop acting.
• Li Yuan planned to leave with Hydra in thirty minutes to confront powerful enemies in another world.
• The Frost King met his mounted wraiths in the Endless Wasteland and learned they had found a strange place.
• The Frost King pulled a green sphere of rotten flesh from the Northern Mountain Dragon’s throat, and the dragon showed relief.
• The Frost King and his forces faced a fifth-tier threat beneath the wasteland.

The Frost King reached the Gate of Honesty guarding the Molten Fire Dungeon, where Nara lay, and tried to pass its trial. After the gate rejected him, he attacked it, but the door withstood his assault, leaving the Frost King determined to tear it down.

• The Frost King learned that the mountain concealed the Molten Fire Dungeon and that he was the fourth person known to have reached Nara.
• The Frost King gave his name as Mo Yan and truthfully answered the Gate of Honesty's three questions, but the knight murals refused to let him pass.
• The Frost King attacked the doors with his Frost Dragon's Dragon Breath, but the metal doors remained intact.
• The Frost King tried to force the doors apart with wraiths, but they warned him that the gate might retaliate, and he insisted on tearing it down.

Angel Mo reached the Atula Treasury on Pilgrimage Snow Mountain and encountered its guardian, White Emperor Caesar Elgard. A month later, Rat and Zane found the slain ascetic Duka and suspected someone powerful had entered the treasury before them.

• The Frost King ordered his followers to dig into the mountain while he prepared to seek the Clown Emperor if digging failed.
• Angel Mo killed the chained man, repeatedly shattered the regenerating gargoyle, and used the white wedding ring key to open the entrance.
• Angel Mo entered the treasury and met White Emperor Caesar Elgard, who drew the Cross Sword and demanded his name.
• One month later, Rat and Zane found Duka's headless body and concluded a formidable intruder had reached the treasury first.
• Rat and Zane reached the gargoyle at the entrance, and it asked whether they had the key.

Ratt and Zane found Hidden King's heart and the White Emperor's corpse in the Atula Treasury, then learned from the revived White Emperor that the real treasury lay beneath his coffin. They discovered Hidden King's other hand and the Heaven-Reversing Sword, while the chapter ended with the Supreme One waking on Moonlight Island and asking, "Octopus?"

• Ratt and Zane entered the ruined Atula Treasury and found the White Emperor's corpse, Hidden King's heart, and a severed arm holding a Cross Sword.
• Ratt and Zane searched the treasury but found that its records and valuables had been taken or destroyed.
• Ratt used the Death Talk Amulet to question the White Emperor, who said an angel with ten thousand wings had killed him and revealed a hidden treasury beneath the coffin.
• Ratt and Zane moved the mithril coffin, entered the hidden treasury, and found the Heaven-Reversing Sword and Hidden King's other hand behind protective barriers.
• On Moonlight Island, the Supreme One awoke from his sleep and said, "Octopus?"

The Starry Sky Principal interpreted shifting stars as a warning of an Evil God and a looming natural disaster, then faced an invasion by the Blood Clan during a blood moon. The Progenitor declared that his followers had come to offer worlds as food for their god.

• The Starry Sky Principal woke from a nightmare of a monstrous being and read the shifting stars as signs that an Evil God had entered the world.
• He learned that a red moon had appeared before and predicted a Blood Light Tribulation near Eastern Prosperous Star Heavenly Control that night.
• As the blood moon shone and bats gathered, the Starry Sky Principal bottled the three fairies and raised a barrier against the Blood Clan.
• Alice arrived with the white-haired Progenitor, while the academy's mages mobilized to defend against the invasion.
• The Starry Sky Principal questioned the Progenitor's attack, and the Progenitor declared that his followers intended to feed their god by offering worlds to Him.

The True Ancestor launched an assault on the Magic Academy, using disguised Blood Clan infiltrators to sabotage the island’s protective barrier. As it and Alice fought the Starry Sky Principal, a massive figure approached across the sea with a boulder.

• The True Ancestor’s infiltrators revealed themselves among the mages, sowing chaos while another group charged the tower.
• The True Ancestor transformed its arm into a sword and unleashed Blood Flame Slash, a technique derived from Achilles’s Supreme Saint Slash.
• Blood Clan members sabotaged the island’s five magical core arrays, causing the barrier to collapse as the Starry Sky Principal confronted the True Ancestor.
• The True Ancestor and the Starry Sky Principal’s attacks collided, shattering the top of the Black Tower, while Alice joined the fight and Blood Clan forces attacked the mages below.
• The Starry Sky Principal battled the True Ancestor and Alice, while the True Ancestor used the Blood Moon to withstand attacks and adapt to magic.
• A massive figure walked through the sea, picked up a boulder, and asked if she could throw it.

The True Ancestor copied the Starry Sky Principal’s spells while surviving his attacks, until Li Yuan struck the principal’s mind with fifth-tier psychic power. As Hydra chatted with Li Yuan at sea, her words drove a passing ship’s crew into a frenzy, and she found and picked up a tiny Sequence 007 Siren.

• The True Ancestor learned the Starry Sky Principal’s techniques as their attacks failed to kill him.
• A massive boulder struck the principal’s barrier, and Li Yuan’s invisible mental attack made him spit blood and fall.
• Li Yuan explained that his fifth-tier Mental Power had made him a formidable psychic, and he told Hydra not to underestimate the principal.
• Hydra teased Li Yuan about hiding while they discussed the danger posed by fifth-tier experts.
• The crew of a passing cargo ship mistook their conversation for the whispers of Ancient Gods and began acting madly.
• Hydra found the tiny Sequence 007 Siren on a reef, picked her up, and called her cute.

Sirens, Vespa, and Hydra found themselves in another world while Earth’s fleets failed to locate Vespa. In Africa, Nairasojin faced the Ten Heavenly Stems and unleashed the Beast of a Thousand Throats, while Qin Leng contacted Baal with a warning about their contract.

• Hydra reunited Sirens with Vespa and told him she was on their side, as the three wondered what had happened to Earth's oceans.
• Earth's fleets reported that Vespa had vanished completely and decided to notify the O5 Council.
• Nairasojin stopped fleeing the Ten Heavenly Stems in Tanzania and faced their attack.
• Nairasojin ordered the Beast of a Thousand Throats to attack Ding Fire, and Wu Earth was blasted away while protecting her.
• Qin Leng entered Extreme Dark Hell and sent Baal a scroll asking what would happen to their contract if Baal died.

Qin Leng exchanged letters with Baal, King of Demons, and learned that the Starry Sky Principal had glimpsed the Gate of Truth. At the magic academy, the True Ancestor and Alice fought the Principal, who survived a fatal wound and revealed formidable power beyond his mage skills.

• Qin Leng told Baal that the Starry Sky Principal, whom he had once studied under, might soon die.
• Baal said the Principal knew the truth and had glimpsed the Gate of Truth, the source of all power.
• The True Ancestor pierced the Starry Sky Principal's chest while Alice attacked him at the magic academy.
• Black, soul-like entities formed skeletal wings and a bone robe around the wounded Principal, who knocked the True Ancestor back.
• The Starry Sky Principal broke his staff, revealed his rune-covered body, scattered the True Ancestor's Blood Assault with a punch, and shattered his body with another blow.

The Starry Sky Principal fought the True Ancestor with his fists and the protective curse of past High Tower Mages, but lost his will when he saw the academy’s mages had become Blood Clan. As Alice moved to kill him, Sequence 009 intervened and tried to recruit him, while the True Ancestor confronted Sequence 009 over his motives.

• The Starry Sky Principal revealed that his punches were Physical Magic and that Vengeful Soul Gauze from the High Tower Mages’ Soul Sealing Jars protected and sustained him.
• The True Ancestor warned the Starry Sky Principal that the mages behind him were being wiped out, and the Starry Sky Principal saw that they had become Blood Clan.
• The Starry Sky Principal accepted his impending death, but Alice’s scythe was stopped by Sequence 009, who told her to spare him.
• Sequence 009 invited the Starry Sky Principal to join his Industrial Revolution plan, but Jena translated the Principal’s response that any effort would end in emptiness.
• The True Ancestor confronted Sequence 009, and the two argued over whose god understood him better while Alice guessed they were biological brothers.

Li Yuan arrived with Hydra, Vespa, and the Siren, overwhelming the gathered fighters and defeating the True Ancestor with a mental attack. He seized the Starry Sky Principal and demanded to hear the truth about the world.

• Jena asked the Starry Sky Principal why he wanted to die, and he said he had numbed himself to cope with a cruel truth about the world.
• Sequence 008 and Sequence 009 argued over who should take the Starry Sky Principal until Hydra offered to take him instead.
• Hydra, Vespa carrying the Siren, and octopus-faced Li Yuan emerged from the sea and darkened the sky with their arrival.
• The True Ancestor recognized Li Yuan and charged him, but Li Yuan struck him with Mental Shock and left him helpless in the deep sea of his inner world.
• Li Yuan released the True Ancestor, forced everyone present to their knees, and demanded that the Starry Sky Principal tell him everything he knew about the world's truth.

Li Yuan took the Starry Sky Principal away and searched his memories for the truth about his world. A memory from twenty-one years earlier showed the Principal discovering a vast white planet resembling the Heavenly Realm, whose center split open to reveal a gigantic mouth.

• Li Yuan threatened to kill Sequence 009, then withdrew without harming him and took the Starry Sky Principal away.
• The True Ancestor, shaken by Li Yuan's overwhelming power, resolved to become fifth rank.
• Sequence 009 recognized that his Immortal Body could not protect him from Li Yuan, while Sequence 008 and Sequence 009 left separately after failing to claim the Starry Sky Principal.
• Li Yuan invaded the Starry Sky Principal's consciousness and searched his memories for answers about the world.
• In a memory from twenty-one years earlier, the Starry Sky Principal traveled beyond the Solar System and saw a white, five-ringed planet resembling the Heavenly Realm.
• The planet's center split open, revealing a gigantic mouth.

The Starry Sky Principal discovered that the world and the Heavenly Realm were monstrous beings that devoured those living within their star system. He read the Hidden King’s account of their origins and learned that a descendant was foretold to destroy both monsters.

• The Starry Sky Principal saw the Heavenly Realm devour fleeing beings among chunks of rock and feared that the ascended heroes were dead.
• The Starry Sky Principal witnessed his own planet spit out a giant dragon skeleton and realized it was a living monster.
• The Starry Sky Principal read the Hidden King’s journal, which described the Mother Star and the Heavenly Realm as twin predators using the star system as a feeding ground.
• The Hidden King wrote that the Ancient Gods had known the truth, and that the monsters had devoured them while creating powerful beings as food.
• The Hidden King recorded a prophecy that one of his descendants would wield the Blade of Rebellion Against the Heavenly Realm and kill the Mother Star and the Heavenly Realm.

After learning the truth about the Mother Star and the world's impending destruction, Li Yuan reported the threat of powerful planetary beings to Chen Ye. Chen Ye searched possible futures and discovered that a human named Rat might kill the Mother Star, so he ordered his creations to protect Rat and eliminate the Tier Five Ancient Gods.

• The Starry Sky Principal warned Li Yuan to leave before the Mother Star discovered him, but Li Yuan said he would report the threat to Lord Aus.
• Chen Ye learned there were two planet-sized beings that devoured Tier Five life forms and estimated they might be Tier Six or Tier Seven.
• Chen Ye continued investigating from afar instead of entering the unknown world himself, and considered using the Future Chapter to assess the dangers.
• Chen Ye searched the futures and saw Rat kill the Mother Star with a single blade.
• Chen Ye ordered everyone to protect Rat and hunt down every Tier Five Ancient God.

Rat and Zane recruited a powerful stranger to help rescue Jena, while Chen Ye revealed that he had deliberately sent Wang Haonan to assist them. Chen Ye prepared to strengthen Wang Haonan by evolving him into the fourth-tier Watcher Sequence.

• Rat and Zane traveled west after taking legendary weapons from the Atula Treasury, hoping to find allies in the Great Forest of Middle-earth.
• Rat met a seemingly honest, immensely powerful man in a village tavern and persuaded him to join the rescue mission for Jena.
• Zane questioned whether their new ally was trustworthy, citing his strange accent and the suspicious convenience of their meeting.
• The stranger heard their conversation and revealed himself as Sequence 003, the Invisible Man—the Mirror Demon, Wang Haonan, whom Chen Ye had sent to assist the hero party.
• Chen Ye decided to strengthen Wang Haonan by advancing him to the fourth tier with the Watcher potion.

Ratte, Zane, and Wang Haonan traveled toward the Central Lands Forest and debated whether the gods who ascended had actually died, while Ratte’s Hidden King flesh and instincts made him believe Wang Haonan’s suspicions. In a busy town, Wang Haonan noticed a masked woman whose strength was at least fourth rank.

• Ratte told Wang Haonan about discovering The Book of Departed Gods, which listed 107 gods, and questioned where the gods had gone.
• Zane dismissed Ratte’s theories, but Wang Haonan suggested that the gods might have died in the heavens and could no longer return.
• Ratte considered that ascension might be a scam and realized his bloodline instincts and the Hidden King’s body supported Wang Haonan’s claims.
• Ratte explained that the Hidden King’s flesh could sense malice and did not sting around Wang Haonan, confirming that Wang Haonan meant to help them.
• The three entered a lively town, where Ratte identified a masked passerby’s perfume as rare Night Orchid and guessed she was a woman.
• Wang Haonan recognized the masked woman as powerful, estimating that she was at least fourth rank.

Li Yuan explained the Mother Star’s Gate of Truth and chose to confront the God of Wisdom, Long Night Dogma, by flooding the continent. Meanwhile, Angel Mo and the Frost King reached the Molten Fire Dungeon and provoked Fire Eater Nara, which emerged from the lava looking like an earthworm.

• Li Yuan offered the Starry Sky Principal to Chen Ye and learned how the Mother Star’s Gate of Truth affected its agents.
• Li Yuan decided that his group would target the God of Wisdom, Long Night Dogma, and ordered a flood to create favorable terrain.
• Li Yuan, Vespa, and the Deep One priests began flooding the continent while Hydra watched in surprise.
• Angel Mo smashed the Gate of Honesty and descended into the Molten Fire Dungeon with the Frost King.
• Angel Mo destroyed the palace and threw its rubble into the lava, drawing out Fire Eater Nara, which looked like an earthworm.